396 CIX. ACANTHACEX, (C. B. Clarke.) [ Ebermaiera. 
Leaves 2 by $ in., obtuse, base attenuate, slightly viscous-pubescent or glabrate, entire 
or sinuate; petiole } in. Spikes 2-6 in.; lowest bracts altogether leaf-like (whence 
T. Anderson says “ flowers solitary axillary”); tip of the spike often dense with 
short bracts resembling the spike of neighbouring species; bracteoles linear, obtuse, 
shorter than the calyx, Sepals 4 subsimilar, + in., linear-subulate, sparsely glandu- 
lar-hairy ; the fifth longer, much broader, linear-oblong, obtuse. — Corolla straight, 
slightly pubescent without, purplish with rose or yellow stripes. Anther-cells 
muticous or minutely mucronate at base. Capsule 4 in.—Described from Nees’ type 
specimen; Wight’s figure is taken from a form having a much denser more glandular- 
pubescent spike. The Australian species referred here by T. Anderson and Bentham 
differs in its hairy ovary and capsule, and many other minute points ; but it might be 
better to unite it, and make a wholesale reduction of species here. 
VaR. spatulata ; leaves very spathulate, spikes denser only a few of the lowest 
elongate, calyx and bracteoles very glandular-hairy, corolla scarcely i in. Adenosma 
spatulatum, Blume Bijd. 757. Ebermaiera spatulata, Hassk.; Nees in DC. Prodr. 
xi. 74, partly ?.—Pegu ; Kurz. Tenasserim; Beddome. Bengal ; Pubna, Clarke. 
—Distrib. Java.—Growing in rice-swamps; stems erect, thick, quadrangular or 
striate; many or nearly all the leaves alternate.— Ebermaiera spatulata, Noss is 
described from a Philippine plant of Cuming’s, which widely differs from Kurz's Fegu 
specimens. 
2. E. polybotrya, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 74; stems erect adpressedly 
grey-pubescent upwards, leaves elliptic subobtuse at both ends, sp! he 
cylindric not lax downwards, bracts narrowly oblong scarcely exceeding the 
calyx, corolla } in. 
BENGAL; frequent in Terai swamps in Sikkim and Silhet, J. D. H., &c. Movr- 
MEIN and MERGUI; Griffith. . t the 
Stems 6-8 in., often branched from the base. Leaves all opposite, even a h or 
base of the spike, 14 by 4 in., subentire, minutely pubescent on the nerves benent " 
glabrous; petiole O or in the lower leaves scarcely } in. Spikes li in.; brac 
1-j in.; bracteoles linear, shorter than the calyx. Sepals 4 subsimilar, narrow- 
linear, subobtuse ; the fifth rather longer, much broader, oblong, obtuse. Corolla, 
stamens, and capsule nearly as of E. glauca. 
3. E. humilis, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii, 80, and in DC. Prodr. 
xi. 74; stem erect branched adpressed white-pubescent upwards, leaves 
opposite subsessile narrowly elliptic, heads terminal small globose, breo 
oblong sessile hardly so long as the calyx, corolla 4 in. and upwards. “ 
Cat. 7148; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 450. 
Burma ; Prome Hills, Wallich. the 
Stem 6-8 in., branched from near the base; branches ascending, shorter than 
central stem. Leaves 14 by à in., obtusely rhomboid at both ends, nearly glabrow 
adpressedly white-pubescent on the nerves beneath ; petiole hardly 5j in. diam. Hew s 
sessile, )-3 in. diam. ; bracts and bracteoles 4 in. Sepals, 4 linear, subobtuse ; d 
fifth slightly larger, oblong obtuse.—Nearly allied to Æ. polybotrya, but the heads 
lar not elongate cylindric, the bracteoles and sepals are less acute, the corolla 1s 
arger. 
4. E. glutinosa; Wall. Cat. 9087 ; stem trailing rooting pubescent, 
leaves elliptie, base attenuate, heads subspherical on short branches an 
quasi-axillary, bracts elliptic sessile hardly so long as the calyx, corolla $in. 
Ebermaiera sp., Wall. Cat. 9085. E. glauca, T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc, 1x. 450, 1n great part. 
CENTRAL IwDra, N.W. Provinces, and BENGAL, frequent ; Moradabad, Thom- 
son; Behar, J. D. H.; Bundelcund, Edgeworth ; Silhet, Wallich, &c. all 
Stems numerous, 12-18 in. ; nodes in the trailing branches distant. Leaves 0” 
(or nearly all) opposite, 1} by $ in., subobtuse, entire, minutely pubescent or glabrous ; 
